From Day Into Night on the International Space Station #116 A couple times a year, the International Space Station orbit happens to align over the day/night shadow line on Earth. via NASA http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/from-day-into-night-on-the-international-space-station
Milky Way, Launch, and Landing #119 The Milky Way doesn’t look quite this colorful and bright to the eye, but a rocket launch does. So a separate deep exposure with a sensitive digital camera was used in this composite skyscape to bring out our galaxy’s central crowded starfields and cosmic dust clouds. In the scene from Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, a nine minute long exposure begun about 20 minutes after the Miky Way image recorded a rocket launch and landing. The Falcon 9 rocket, named for the Millennium Falcon of Star Wars fame, appropriately launched a Dragon resupply ship to the International Space Station in the early morning hours of May the 4th. The plume and flare at the peak of the launch arc mark the rocket’s first stage boost back burn. Two shorter diagonal streaks are the rocket engines bringing the Falcon 9 stage back to an offshore landing on autonomous drone ship Of course I Still Love You. via NASA https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190511.html
Hubble Spots Stunning Spiral Galaxy #116 NGC 2903 is located about 30 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo (the Lion), and was studied as part of a Hubble survey of the central regions of roughly 145 nearby disk galaxies. via NASA http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2019/hubble-spots-stunning-spiral-galaxy
